Riots have broke out in Bethlehem following President Trump’s declaration that he would recognise Jerusalem as the capital announcement.

Protestors can be seen clashing with police officers as loud bangs ring out in the RT livestream.

Both Palestine and Israel have a territorial claim to the contested capital and the international community has previously agreed that two separate states for the groups should be created.

The President reportedly told Israeli and Arab leaders on Tuesday that he plans to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel before he formally announced the decision.

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Live webcam: Riots have broke out in Bethlehem after Trump's declaration

Since Mr Trump reversed decades of US policy by recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel there have been scenes of anger from Muslims across the Middle East.

Palestinian leaders have called for three "days of rage" in protest and the US State Department also issued a travel warning about the West Bank and Jerusalem's Old City.

Most countries – including Russia, China and Australia – have their embassies in Tel Aviv. The UK has embassy offices in Tel Aviv and East Jerusalem.

Critics believe the move will upend decades of American policy and upset efforts to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

The status of Jerusalem is one of the core issues of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

War has intermittently broken our between Israel and Palestine for more than half a century over a bitter land dispute.

Israel faced international condemnation after it annexed East Jerusalem in 1980 – provoking Palestinians to declare their independence eight years later and announcing the city as its capital.

During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, West Jerusalem was annexed by Israel, while East Jerusalem was seized by Jordan.

On December 5, 1949, Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion declared Jerusalem as the "eternal" and "sacred" capital, although it was not put into Israeli law until 1980 after the nation also seized East Jerusalem.

The move was met with international condemnation – in a unanimous General Assembly resolution, the UN declared the measures trying to change the status of the city invalid.

In 1995 under then-president Bill Clinton, the US Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act, which required, subject to conditions, that its embassy is moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.